MARDİN - 17 out of 67 children who had been arrested after leaving the conflict zone during the "curfew", are defendants in the case where the case was closed after 1 and a half years, told about the torture that they had been exposed after the cameras were closed.

 

The 'curfew' continues since the decleration on May 26, 2016 in Nusaybin district of Mardin. 17 children, 67 people,who have been arrested after being released from the province, standed trial within the scope of indictment prepared for them one and a half year later for the first time on January 9. The hearing was carried out as closed to the arrested relatives and journalists in Mardin Heavy Penal Court No. 4, in which the indictment opened for 19 criminals was accepted.

 

Children did not accept SEGBIS

 

Eight children were brought to the hearing, while nine children were ready for Sound and Image Information System (SEGBIS). The hearing of the arrested children's lawyers began with the reading of the documents sent by the Chief Public Prosecutor of Nusaybin. An interpreter was brought to the attention of the children to ask for their defense in Kurdish after identification. Seven children in different prisons stated that they would not testify with SEGBIS.

 

'Secret witness statements were taken to the aacompaniment of torture'

 

The written proceedings of the hearing were given to the lawyers after two days. The first one of the defenders children, who defended at the hearing, stated that they had stayed in the basement floor during curfew and had not participated in conflicts. After leaving the conflict zone, they were exposed to violence by the state forces. The child who notes that the confidential witness statements in the file were not given consent and was taken under torture, said "Only the undersigned has been signed under. I do not accept the declarations in my opinion, it is normal to have shot stain in my clothes."

 

'Soldiers tortured in turn'

 

The other arrestee child did not accept the statement he gave in the prosecution.  The child, who said ‘25 people in the basement surrendered.After they told us that we were going to surrender, the law enforcement officers who took us took us to the camera.They told us  they would deliver us to our family, but after they took us, they took it away elsewhere.The soldiers lined up in eight rows tortured us. They broke the stick on my back, diagnosed it as it was in the minutes of forced diagnosis.’, expressed in the first court he had taken after he was taken into custody, but he said that they had enregistered differently.

 

When the camera is off and all the methods of torture are put into effect!

 

Stating that he was tortured and shared what public prosecutor said, "Pray for it because you are not dead", the arrestee boy said us that his clothes were taken off by the soldiers when they surrendered, and added, "When we were out of order, the cameras were detecting us. After you passed the camera, they put you at the backside and they tortured us that way. The soldiers were using it as a place of torture. They took me dragging me, I lost my consciousness by keeping it from my hair. They tortured me  when they closed the camera. They took me another division in the school, the other part screamed and they were torturing "

 

He also emphasized that the law enforcement officers tried to find sexual abuse on him 2-3 troops in the area they were hiding.

 

‘The indictment was prepared through the possibilities'

 

A lawyer Kamuran Tanhan,who emphasized that he was talking about these accusations and that he prepared the indictment through the possibilities,wanted the trial to be pending by saying that ‘he wanted to be tried as a criminal and there is an indictment that was made without investigating the facts.’

 

'File prepared under torture'

 

Lawyer Rengin Ergül tortured the attention of the court delegate to his client and other defendants in his defense. Rengin said, "Our client has been found to have an eschimosis in his face as a result of torture . Judging by the European Court of Human Rights judgments, this is against the law. The file has been drafted on the basis of the statements of the children taken under torture in view of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.The use of the evidence obtained in contravention of this law in this file is contrary to the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and Article 38 of the Constitutional Court. It is said that our client is using a weapon but the swap sample is clean.The reason for the antimony substance is the basement environment.It is possible that antimony material might be infected even after a person has passed through a confrontation.Therefore it is against the law to prepare the file based on the expressions of children taken under torture ."

 

‘Prosecutor requested continuation of detention’

 

Following the defense of the children and their lawyers, the prosecutor asked for the continuation of their detention on grounds of "concrete evidence showing the existence of a strong crime suspect that children committed crimes on their shoulders, evidence has not yet been fully collected and children are likely to darken their evidence".

 

Requests to upload images to file have been rejected

 

After the defenses, the court decided to continue the detention of 17 children, citing the existence of a strong suspicion of crime. The court rejected the request to write a memorandum on the use of ammunition by the Turkish Armed Forces on the grounds that the lawyers were required to include the images of the main delivery of the children in the file. Furthermore, the court postponed the meeting to April 10, by deciding that the children who did not defend through SEGBIS should be ready for the next session.